Fellowships for Graduate Students and Recent Ph.D. recipients:
The Institut Français d’Amérique announces it annual competition for fellowships to support research in France. Up to four $1500 awards are available for living in France (not travel to France) to conduct research for a period of at least one month in the summer or fall of 2013. The deadline for applications is January 15, 2013.
The application process is now completed on-line, and information can be found here: http://institut.web.unc.edu/application/
The Fellowships include:
Gilbert Chinard Research Fellowships
Harmon Chadbourn Rorison Fellowship
Edouard Morot-Sir Fellowship in Literature
Candidacy: Final stage of dissertation research, or Ph.D. held no longer than three years before the application deadline on January 15, 2013.
Fields: French studies in the areas of art, economics, history, history of science, linguistics, literature and social sciences.
Application: No application form. Applicants write two pages maximum (single spaced), describing the research project and planned trip (location, length of stay, etc.), and include a curriculum vita. A letter of recommendation from the dissertation director is required for Ph.D. candidates and a letter from a specialist in the field for recent recipients of the Ph.D.
Report: Upon return, the awardee will send a brief report to the Institut Français d’Amérique about the research and the work that was completed in France.
Application materials and recommendations (separately and directly from the recommender) should be sent to: IFA@unc.edu
For more information about the IFA (formerly the Institut Français de Washington) and previous fellowship winners, please visit the Institut’s website:
